Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest evil of our social life is that we know too little of the unseen realities," said Rabbi Harry Levi yesterday in his lecture on "Judaism and Law" at the seventh meeting of the series of addresses on the general subject of "Religion and Law," under the auspices of first-year law students...
...from America. True, the Jews of America are the richest Jews in the world, but the Jews of America are far from united in support of the Zionist cause. Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, is a direct opponent. Other prominent Jews, such as Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, while favorable to the movement, have not approved of the policy of the Foundation Fund, believing that the movement should be financed by private initiative rather than by the Fund's communal methods...
...house so intently watched by the throng came some rabbis, slowly bearing a coffin. The thousands in the street set up a louder cry and surged toward the hearse for a last look at the remains of their holy man, their "Chief Grand Rabbi." Called Isaac Friedman, he had come to them in the spring, from Sadagora, Austria, he saying, they believing, that he was of the seed of David in the legendary Messianic line that is to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy of the second coming of the Son of God. In their midst he had died. They carried...
...mourners of Isaac Friedman were of the Hasidim, a cult of Judaism that had its origin among the Polish Jews in the 18th Century, as a movement of popular protest against the strict ritualism and insistence upon the immutability of the law as propounded by the Talmudists, or orthodox rabbis, whom the Hasidim call the Mitnaggedim, or "opposition." The belief in the miraculous powers of their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews regard...
...elephant swallowing a peanut. There was a well-known matchbox trick, fully explained diagrammatically. A note referred the reader to the World's Magazine Section-where were set down little-known facts about Harry Houdini: that he was born to the name of Weiss, son of a scholarly rabbi; that he tock his name from a French magician, Robert Houdini; that his "greatest trick" is allowing himself to be garbed in a dress coat, packed in a bag, boxed in a locked and corded trunk, whence he appears in a few seconds and reveals his wife (or other colleague...